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How to spell unpack

What it means: To take items out of a container or suitcase.

In a sentence: After the trip, I helped my mom unpack the suitcase. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as unpak or unpake.

Same family: packed, packing, package, repack, backpack. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Unpack is formed by adding the prefix "un-" (meaning "reverse" or "do the opposite") to "pack." English speakers first used it in the 1500s for literally opening bundles and luggage, and it later gained the modern figurative sense of carefully explaining or analyzing something.

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